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I'd guess it is more likely a typo, rather than a scanning error. Some scanning errors, such as rn --> m, are understandable, but "I" (or "i") and "a" don't look similar. The error may have occurred in the brain of the writer, because those two one-letter words are very common and it would be easy to strike one letter rather than the other when typing fast.

I just made a list of websites with "as I child", but then deleted it because some of the texts were rather personal.